Nums AI's Causilo tops TabArena's single-model ranking, weights research-only
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What this means for you
Read the licence before planning around it: the code is Apache-2.0, but the weights are research-only, so nothing commercial ships on them. If you handle tabular data, the comparison against TabFM and EXAONE Tabular is worth a look — but no evaluation date is given, so treat the placing as provisional.
Nums AI has released Causilo, a pretrained model for tables — the rows-and-columns data behind spreadsheets and most business records — rather than for text or images, and it handles classification (predicting a category) and regression (predicting a number) through the standard scikit-learn interface. The code is Apache-2.0; the weights are licensed for non-commercial research only. Nums AI reports Causilo at the top TabArena Elo among single models, ahead of Google's TabFM and LG's EXAONE Tabular. TabArena ratings are relative, and no evaluation date is given for the run.
Key facts
- ·Nums AI released Causilo, a pretrained tabular foundation model for classification and regression. source
- ·The code is released under Apache-2.0, while the weights are licensed for non-commercial research use. source
- ·Nums AI reports Causilo at the top TabArena Elo among single models. source
- ·That placing is ahead of Google's TabFM and LG's EXAONE Tabular. source
- ·Causilo ships with a scikit-learn interface. source
What the sources say
- MarkTechPost — Short release note covering the split licence for code and weights, and the leaderboard placing
Sources
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